Each week, MGH Psychiatry Grand Rounds are held in The Ether Dome, the site of the first public demonstration of inhaled ether for surgical anesthesia in 1846.

History

After its founding in 1811, the first mission of the Massachusetts General Hospital was to offer clinical services to the mentally ill. From its beginning, the psychiatric Asylum of the MGH, later renamed the McLean Asylum, offered world-renowned residential care.
Realizing the potential of scientific investigation to improve treatment, the superintendent of the McLean Hospital established the first research laboratories in a psychiatric hospital in 1888. In 1934, complementing its freestanding McLean hospital division, the MGH established one of the first general hospital-based Psychiatry departments in the United States.
Since 1811, McLean Hospital and MGH have shared faculty, trainees, and collaborative research endeavors. Today, MGH/McLean residency programs in Adult Psychiatry and in Child Psychiatry enjoy the extensive resources of both. Between its two complementary campuses, MGH/McLean Psychiatry delivers training opportunities unsurpassed anywhere in the world. World leaders in psychiatry provide supervision of trainees in General Psychiatry and all its sub-specialty fields.
Our patients come from Boston, its suburbs, New England and around the world. At MGH/McLean, psychiatric residents will learn to treat patients from diverse cultural, economic, ethnic and racial communities.
As Harvard’s oldest, largest and most productive academic community, our facilities help insure that clinical care and training is top notch. Research at MGH/McLean is among the largest scientific Programs in Psychiatry and Neuroscience in the world.
Access and opportunity are the hallmarks of our training program. Every clinical service and research group eagerly welcomes residents to participate. Core rotations are provided and each trainee can select among a vast reservoir of experiences during each year of the program.
MGH/McLean Psychiatry brings to residents a “dream team” of faculty who are leaders in their field, exceptionally diverse patients from whom to learn, and stellar colleague-trainees. We welcome your interest in being part of this community.

My interests are broad, and being in the MGH/McLean system has really allowed me to explore these. I’ve been able to pursue my academic interests, as well as have a broad clinical exposure that introduce me to fields of psychiatry that I did not expected to enjoy as much as I have. Jeffrey Devido, Class of 2012

My areas of professional interest are diverse and continuing to develop. I’ve considered further training in areas such as psychosomatic psychiatry, child and adolescent psychiatry, and forensic psychiatry.Matthew Lahaie, Class of 2015

Other Posts

In May, residency alum Evan Macosko, Class of 2014, published a landmark study using nanobeads to unravel neuronal diversity, work which he carried out during his time as a resident in the research concentration program.

A new study published in PLOS ONE conducted by Edward Meloni, PhD, and Marc Kaufman, PhD of McLean Hospital are reporting that xenon gas, used in humans for anesthesia and diagnostic imaging, has the potential to be a treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other memory-related disorders.